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Stand-off at Antrim

When the marchers approached Antrim Town, the Loyal Citizens of Ulster were waiting at the railway bridge to block them. There was a stand-off for a couple of hours before an agreement was reached that the marchers would be taken by police transport through Antrim Town.

Major Ronald Bunting and student Michael Farrell are seen in the middle of the crowd.

A RTÉ News report, which is mute, about the loyalist obstruction of the Belfast to Derry march.

This report was broadcast on 1 January 1969.

Civil Rights Movement, Northern Ireland, Belfast, Derry, Antrim, Loyal Citizens of Ulster, Ronald Bunting, Michael Farrell, People's Democracy

Ireland, Belfast, Derry, Antrim

News

Wars and Conflict

RTÉ

1969

Ireland

N1/0069G

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